Screaming Females ?– Rose Mountain

	€		21
	$		24

Small is Beautiful. One of my favourite phrases and certainly a philosophy within Smoeff. It is not like we treat bands differently when they start playing for bigger audiences. The idea is that everyone gets the same help to make it possible to play the best shows possible. Screaming Females is one of these smaller bands that I totally love. (I share this love in fact with Ian MacKaye of Fugazi and former Minor Threat. When he was asked recently what bands excite him at the moment, he didn’t hesitate: Screaming Females) From the very first time they came to our storage I was fully impressed with the seemingly effortless way of jamming the bass and guitarplayer were showing me while testing amps. And when I saw it live with the vocals added I was blown away. Marissa Paternoster is goddess. Is she Jimi Hendrix? She is one of the shortest musicians I have been working with, but when she picks up the guitar and starts singing she becomes huge. She is taking the small is beautiful to a new level for me.


This spring they toured their latest album Rose Mountain and after a week of fighting with soundpeople who kept complaining about Screaming Females being too loud they gave in and changed the amps for smaller amps. What a shame, as for me it is still, the louder the better… with certain music that is. Low I always liked best when they were quiet, but a band like Screaming Females should be loud!


And a confession….. I would love to invite Marissa to come and visit Mambo, Tanzania for a few months and do music and art with kids. She has also committed to produce a flag as a symbol for the project in Tanzania.


So here we have five signed Rose Mountain records of Marissa and co to sell and raise money for All Kids Should Play. This is number two.
All kids should play is just a name. It represents a few people and organisations who try to send a container with musical equipment to Tanzania and then later in the year invite a few musicians to come and host a few workshops with children and mentally handicapped people. It will take place in a little village called Mambo, Lushoto in the Usambara mountains. There is already an organisation who have been there permanently for 6 years called MamboViewPoint (www.mamboviewpoint.org <http://ww.mamboviewpoint.org/>). They built a lodge and with that basis they do all kinds of development projects in the field of education, healthcare, water, roads and bridges, farming and much more. One of the early guests of the lodge was Gijs, a dutch guy who fell in love with the area and the views that are one of a kind. Within two days he committed to start a circus activity with children of the village (1500 out of the 5000 villagers are primary school kids). Almost 5 years later this project has become pretty successful, does performances in the lodge, the village and this january went on tour for the first time and did 7 shows in 3 days (and the kids got to see the sea for the first time in their lives). As it became so successful the idea was to extend the program with other arty forms and music was the first obvious thing that came to mind. Gijs runs a music equipment company in Holland called Smoeff and rents gear to mostly North American and Australian bands that come and tour Europe. Every year about 200 bands are playing equipment supplied by Smoeff. Already for a few years Smoeff is donating about 4000-5000 for various projects in Mambo. To finance sending a container full of equipment to Tanzania we ask a lot of the bands that Smoeff works with to donate 5 records and sign them. Then we sell them on eBay.de one by one. All the proceeds minus eBay/PayPal expenses goes in the fund. We think we need about 5000 euro. The musicians who come and do the project at the end of the year will not be paid out of this fund. They will finance their own flights, transportation, food and lodging….

For whoever is lucky enough to buy this please be aware that we are collecting money for a musical project as explained underneath. We try to do this with as little costs as possible. For people within the eurozone this means paying by bank incurs the least costs. Paypal is subtracting about 7-8% of what you pay and when we put it from PayPal in our bankaccount, it is costing us another almost 5%. So ebay and paypal costs together is close to 25%. So please lets talk about payment before paying.


Thanks!


Apart from Screaming Females we also have signed records from VS the World and Wire on sale right now.